Editing Jake Plummer (section)

==Early life==
Plummer was born in [[Boise, Idaho]]; he and his two older brothers grew up in Smiley Creek. They were often at the family lumber mill and warehouse in the town of 50 in the [[Sawtooth Range (Idaho)|Sawtooths]] (the mountains of the Sawtooth Range).<ref name=si.ret>{{cite magazine|first=Chris|last=Ballard|title=What Was He Thinking?: You have to wonder why a red-blooded American male in his prime would walk away from fame and fortune as an NFL quarterback to play handball and hang with his family and his dogs. Don't you?|date=February 14, 2011|publisher=Time Inc|magazine=Sports Illustrated|url=https://www.si.com/vault/2011/02/14/106035675/what-was-he-thinking|access-date=February 20, 2017}}</ref>

In his youth, Plummer attended Pierce Park Elementary and Hillside Junior High. In third grade at Pierce Park, he started going by Jake after being asked by his teacher to use a different name because there were four other students named Jason.<ref>{{cite podcast|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_zNfBgTdfU|title=Not Your Average Duo|publisher=[[Denver Broncos]]|host=[[Brad Williams (comedian)|Brad Williams]]|date=June 1, 2024|access-date=October 17, 2024}}</ref> He graduated from [[Capital High School (Idaho)|Capital High School]] in 1993, where he was a three-sport star in high school, playing baseball and basketball in addition to football; he was also selected all-state as both a quarterback and punter and passed for 6,097 yards and 68 touchdowns in his junior and senior years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nflhs.com/news/playersspotlight/jakeplummer_10012003_sim.asp |title=Player Spotlight: Jake Plummer |access-date=December 15, 2008 |last=Raffel |first=John |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060520174228/http://www.nflhs.com/news/playersspotlight/JakePlummer_10012003_sim.asp |archive-date=May 20, 2006 }}</ref> He originally wanted to play football at [[Stanford]], but they only offered him a preferred walk-on offer; he instead accepted a full ride from [[California Golden Bears football|California]] until [[Hue Jackson]], then a coach at [[Arizona State Sun Devils football|Arizona State]], heavily recruited Plummer and eventually convinced him to recommit to the Sun Devils. He also received scholarship offers from [[Boise State Broncos football|Boise State]], [[Idaho Vandals football|Idaho]], [[Montana Grizzlies football|Montana]], [[Oregon State Beavers football|Oregon State]], [[Washington State Cougars football|Washington State]], and [[Wyoming Cowboys football|Wyoming]].<ref>{{cite web |title=An Article from 1996 about Jake Plummer in High School |date=October 24, 1996 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Sun-Devils-QB-Plummer-Master-of-the-Comeback-3497039.php}}</ref>